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Patrick White
Australia
28 May 1912 // 30 Sep 1990
Writer [Nobel 1973]
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On Life:
The mystery of life is not salved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.
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On Life:
Life doesn't end on the kitchen floor while there is the will to dance.
Three Uneasy Pieces
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On Suffering:
No animal suffers worse than a human being.
The Vivisector
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On Self-knowledge:
To make yourself, it is also necessary to destroy yourself.
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On Human Being:
There's nothing so inhuman as a human being.
The Vivisector
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On Human Relations:
Human relationships are vast as deserts: they demand all daring.
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On Life:
Life is full of alternatives but no choice.
The Aunt's Story
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On Honesty:
Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.
The Tree Of Man
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On Comprehension:
To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.
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On Truth:
If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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